Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other personalities of the filmmaking industry of the time for their works during the 1927 – 1928 period.

Percy Bysshe Shelley composed a " Hymn of Apollo " ( 1820 ), and the god's instruction of the Muses formed the subject of Igor Stravinsky's Apollon musagète ( 1927 – 1928 ).

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

Leipzig, 1927 – 1928

* 1928 – James D. Watson, American geneticist, Nobel laureate

* 1851 – Edward Walter Maunder, English astronomer ( d. 1928 )

* 1928 – Jean-François Paillard, French conductor

* 1928 – Hugh Hood, Canadian author ( d. 2000 )

* 1928 – The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by the first 15 nations to do so.

* 1928 – Péter Boross, Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary

* 1928 – Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician

* 1928 – Herb Moford, American baseball player ( d. 2005 )

* 1928 – Andy Warhol, American artist ( d. 1987 )

* 1928 – Bob Cousy, American basketball player

* 1928 – Dolores Wilson, American soprano ( d. 2010 )

* 1928 – Camilla Wicks, American concert violinist

Australia's ageing post-war team broke up after 1926, with Collins, Charlie Macartney and Warren Bardsley all departing, and Gregory breaking down at the start of the 1928 – 29 series.

A single Test was held at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground in 1928 – 29.

* 1928 – Malcolm Hilton, English cricketer ( d. 1990 )

* 1986 – Erik Bruhn, Danish ballet dancer, choreographer ( b. 1928 )

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

* 1928 – Cécile Aubry, French actress ( d. 2010 )

* 1928 – Henning Moritzen, Danish actor ( d. 2012 )

* Friedensreich Hundertwasser ( 1928 – 2000 ): artist and architect

In the mid 1870s the novelist Thomas Hardy ( 1840 – 1928 ) lived in a house called ' St.

* June 2-Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet (+ 1928 )

On May 27, 1928, Peer had the group travel to the Victor Camden, New Jersey studios, where they recorded many of what would become their signature songs, including: " Meet me by the Moonlight Alone "; " Keep On the Sunny Side "; " Can the Circle be Unbroken "; " Little Darling, Pal of Mine "; " Forsaken Love "; " Anchored in Love "; " I Ain't Goin ' to Work Tomorrow "; " Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone "; " Wildwood Flower "; " River of Jordan "; " Chewing Gum "; and " John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man ".

Thomas Hardy ( 1840 – 1928 ), was an English novelist, short-story writer, and poet.

Robert Barcia, also known as ' Hardy ' and Roger Girardot ( 22 July 1928 in Paris – 12 July 2009 in Créteil ), was a French politician, leader of the Union Communiste Internationaliste ( UCI ), a Trotskyist organisation that is better known by the name of its weekly paper Lutte Ouvrière ( Workers ' Struggle ), which is also the name of the UCI's public party, whose spokeswoman is Arlette Laguiller.

* The novels of Thomas Hardy ( 1840 – 1928 ) often use the dialect in dialogue, notably Tess of the D ' Urbervilles ( 1891 ).

* Flying Elephants, 1928 Laurel and Hardy silent film

In 1928, she was teamed with Marion " Peanuts " Byron as a short-lived female version of Laurel and Hardy.

The village churchyard contains the grave of Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis ( died 1972 ), as well as the burial place of the heart of Thomas Hardy ( died 1928 ), the novelist and poet, alongside the grave of his first wife Emma Lavinia Gifford who died in 1912.

During the academic year 1928 – 9 Hardy was at Princeton, so it was E. C. Titchmarsh who took over the duties as a supervisor.

Hardy designed and lived in Max Gate from 1885 until his death in 1928.

From there she was hired by Hal Roach to co-star in short subjects with Max Davidson, Edgar Kennedy, and Charley Chase, but most significantly with Anita Garvin, where tiny ( 5 ') Marion was teamed with 6 ' Anita for a brief ( 3 film ) series as a " female Laurel & Hardy " in 1928 – 1929.

* From Soup to Nuts ( 1928 ) — Laurel and Hardy two-reeler ( silent )

* You're Darn Tootin ' ( 1928 ) — Laurel and Hardy two-reeler ( silent )

Hardy Krüger ( born Franz Eberhard August Krüger ; 12 April 1928 ) is a German actor.

* Lyrical Poetry from Blake to Hardy ( 1928, Hogarth Press )

The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929.

The school existed in three German cities ( Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and Berlin from 1932 to 1933 ), under three different architect-directors: Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930 and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 until 1933, when the school was closed by its own leadership under pressure from the Nazi regime.

Meyer became director when Gropius resigned in February 1928, and brought the Bauhaus its two most significant building commissions, both of which still exist: five apartment buildings in the city of Dessau, and the headquarters of the Federal School of the German Trade Unions ( ADGB ) in Bernau.

* 1928 – Gerhard Kaufhold, German footballer ( d. 2009 )

In mathematics and computer science, the (, German for ' decision problem ') is a challenge posed by David Hilbert in 1928.

The German American Rockefeller family's Rockefeller Foundation made a large donation enabling the development of a new dedicated building for the institute, along Kraepelin's guidelines, which was officially opened in 1928.

* Richard von Mises, Probability, Statistics, and Truth, 1939 ( German original 1928 )

* 1928 – Hans Herrmann, German race car driver

May 14, 1928 issue of German lesbian periodical Die Freundin ( The Girlfriend ).

* 1928 – Hans Modrow, German politician, premier of East Germany

* 1864 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1928 )

In 1928, Ribbentrop was introduced to Adolf Hitler as a businessman with foreign connections who " gets the same price for German champagne as others get for French champagne ".

* Herbert von Dirksen: German Ambassador to the Soviet Union ( 1928 – 1933 ), Japan ( 1933 – 1938 ), and the United Kingdom ( 1938 – 1939 )

In 1928, German industry under Krupp leadership put down a general strike, locking out 250, 000 workers, and encouraging the government to cut wages 15 %.

Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007 ) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important ( Barrett 1988, 45 ; Harvey 1975b, 705 ; Hopkins 1972, 33 ; Klein 1968, 117 ) but also controversial ( Power 1990, 30 ) composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

In 1928 a book titled The Lesbians of Berlin written by Ruth Margarite Röllig further popularized the German capital as a center of lesbian activity.

* 1928 – Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano

In 1920 the candidate of the German Party, Ernst Barczewski, was elected to the Sejm with 74. 6 percent of votes and to the Polish Senate with 34. 6 % of votes for the Bloc of National Minorities in 1928.

* 1928 – Reinhard Scheer, German naval officer ( b. 1863 )

Klabund, German writer and poet ( d. 1928 )

He was aided by the German priest Ludwig Kaas, who was known for his expertise in Church-state relations and was a full-time politician, politically active in the Catholic Centre Party, a party he led following Wilhelm Marx's resignation in October 1928.

In 1928 Slovenian Herman Potočnik ( 1892 – 1929 ) published his sole book, The Problem of Space Travel — The Rocket Motor ( German: Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums — der Raketen-Motor ), a plan for a breakthrough into space and a permanent human presence there.

* 1928 – Albert Mangelsdorff, German trombonist ( d. 2005 )